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Data Virtualization Insights from the Pacific Northwest BI Summit 2012
I am back at Composite Software headquarters after attending my fifth Pacific Northwest BI Summit. Unique Information Management Event This unique event that brings together a select set of information...
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TDWI’s Data Virtualization Class A Big Hit
I left for vacation right after attending Dave Wells’ Data Virtualization Class at TWDI in San Diego on August 1st, so I hadn’t had the chance to comment on the new course. It’s been a couple of weeks,...
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Analytics the Driver for Latest Data Virtualization Platform Release
This week Composite Software introduced the version 6.2 of the Composite Data Virtualization Platform. According to Wayne Eckerson, director of research at TechTarget and founder of the BI Leadership...
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The Greatest Data Virtualization Day Ever!
Each year, I am responsible for leading the premier event in data virtualization, Data Virtualization Day. It’s a huge responsibility and even bigger endeavor. But the rewards are amazing, especially...
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Can Data Virtualization Address the Data Integration Bottleneck?
We all understand the business value of BI and analytics as enablers for growth, a means to attract and retain customers, or a way to drive innovation and reduce costs. CIOs do as well. Both Gartner’s...
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Boulder BI Brain Trust Trip Report
In my last blog, Data Virtualization Returns to the BBBT, I announced Composite’s fifth presentation to the Boulder BI Brain Trust on January 4, 2013. This blog is a “trip report” covering that visit....
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Solving the Analyst’s Data Problem
Recently I have been talking to a number of data scientists and business analysts about what they actually do when performing a new analysis of some nature. Their processes were quite surprising...
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Trip Report from Gartner BI and Analytics Summit
Last week Composite Software was at the Gartner BI and Analytics conference in Dallas http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-intelligence/ It was an incredible event in terms of content...
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Data Challenges in the Analytics Pipeline
Data is the lifeblood of analytics — the more diverse the better. In their best-selling book, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Mayer-Schonberger and Cukier...
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Integrating Analytic Data Using Data Virtualization
More Data = Better Analysis The analytic data domain includes all kinds of data, including: traditional enterprise data from sources like the Enterprise Data Warehouse; big data from sources like...
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How Data Virtualization Addresses the Big Data Integration Skills Shortage
Big data opens the door to unprecedented analytic opportunities for business innovation, customer retention and profit growth. However, the big data skills shortage is creating a bottleneck at every...
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What Are The Top Data Virtualization Use Cases?
A recently published BI Leadership Benchmark Report lists eleven use cases for data virtualization. The report, Data Virtualization: Perceptions and Market Trends, which includes survey results from...
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Archiving with Big Data = Better Business Results
Business Value from Mixing Current and Historical Data Historical data is now an essential tool for businesses as they struggle to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, manage risk and...
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Big Data Analytics – Better with Data Virtualization
Big Data Analytics Make Business Sense Big data analytic opportunities are abundant, with business value the driver. According to the Professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT: “Companies...
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Data Virtualization: Achieve Better Business Outcomes, Faster
Bob Eve, Director, Product Management View Bob Eve’s original post on Cisco Data Center’s Blog Data, Data Everywhere! The challenge of making business decisions in a networked world isn’t a lack of...
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How Data Virtualization Helps Data Scientists
By now it is clear that big data analytics opens the door to unprecedented analytic opportunities for business innovation, customer retention and profit growth. However, a shortage of data scientists...
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Data Virtualization: Live at Cisco Live! San Francisco
It has been a great year for Data Virtualization at Cisco Live! Milan, Melbourne, and Toronto were fantastic opportunities to introduce Data Virtualization to Cisco customer and partner audiences....
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Save Big Money with Big Data
Data in data warehouses doubles every 2.5 years. For users, this means more data to analyze, leading to better business outcomes. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this extra storage capacity...
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